My great uncle were taken and never came back.. They could be taken away during the "sook ching" operations.
I was Googling what buses goes to changi village when i chance upon that changi beach was a popular massacre ground for the jap.. I was taken aback.. Could this be true? I came upon a MINDEF article.. This is an excerpt:
"Chinese males were ordered to report at the "registration camps" around Singapore. At the camps, they were sorted according to their occupations. Among the "purged" were persons connected to the China Relief Fund (in aid of China’s war of resistance against Japan); those who worked for the British or were involved in the resistance of the Japanese army and even students. They were tied and taken on trucks to Changi beach, Punggol beach or to the docks of Tanjong Pagar and gunned down."
and
"Operation Sook Ching only marked the beginning of the Japanese Occupation, however it was definitely a far cry from the "Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere" the Japanese propaganda machine had advertised."
Operation Sook Ching took place in Feb 1942, in Singapore.
Yes, I am still going to Changi Beach tomorrow, but I will be reminded how fragile is human life and how deceptful humans can be..
